Sentence examples for humble ceremony from inspiring English sources

They married in Stockholm on May 6, 1680 in a hasty and humble ceremony.

For even the most humble ceremony, there's the venue, catering, dress, tiara, bouquet, toasting glasses, photographers, videographer, professional portrait, photo album, mariachi band, and decorated Hummer, limo, or truck.

Even Soderling, who by reputation shuns discourse with most players, became a humble charmer during the awards ceremony, paying his respects.

Although Wilson walked away empty handed at these awards ceremonies, she remains humble by the acknowledgement.

Kuramata's transformation of cheap materials into precious objects is flavored with the tea ceremony's reverence for humble things, as well as the designer's reverence for Duchamp.

He believed in pomp and ceremony, yet he lived in humble circumstances.

One of those in the congregation, Irene Lunghi, described it as "a serious ceremony, simple and also a bit humble, like St Francis himself".

Fewer than a dozen people sweated through the ceremony at the Cullowhee United Methodist Church, a modest event emblematic of Thad's humble roots.

At a remembrance ceremony in 2007, he said he felt humbled to be "representing an entire generation," but he insisted that the occasion was not about him.

But getting prize money and acclaim is basically the opposite of humbling, and it's only long after the euphoric ceremony that Kiplingesque wisdom about those two impostors, triumph and disaster, starts to sink in.

Ivan Dodd London Your report on the Magna Carta commemoration ceremony (800 years on, this queen marks the humbling of a king, 16 June) mentioned a four-metre bronze statue of the Queen.